Hi everyone,
I've been the caregiver for my mom for quite some time now. She was just diagnosed about 5 or 6 years ago, but I think she has had it for probably 15 years.
I've noticed the slow progession of it for years, and actually tried to get her to see a Dr...

My mom doesn't have to suffer with the terrible disease of Alzheimer's any more.
On August 14 at 2:15 am, Mom breathed her last breath. I thank God that I was at her side. I was able to say my goodbyes and comfort Mom at the end.
In her final days she was suffering...

Selectively of course. That way when my mom is having one of her bad days where she was responding to internal stimuli and not making any damn sense when she talks so I would know what to do to make her feel better. Last night she was trying to think of something and statred...

I wrote this for another blog last week and think it might be worth repeating.
Many of our peers are probably in a similar position as my sibling and me. We have an aging parent afflicted with Alzheimer’s, this insidious disease robs our loved ones of...

Is one's essence defined by the age of the body or their culture, economic status or gender? What are we naked; without our statistics to label us?
My mother has gone through a true metamorphosis and continues to do so. She wears different costumes of the mind. Each...

I reach out with my mind to touch you.
I cannot reach.
I see a spark in your eyes.
A spark of memory,
It flares to life
Then dies.
Now, your memories are mere moments
Fleeting, fragile.
Like the spark that never becomes the flame.
Like the bud that never blooms.
And your life...

I have a mother who is struggling with Alzheimer's disease. She feels like a completely different person, and although I love and respect her, its hard to even talk to her. I found out about it within the past year, and am very emotional still about it. When I stumbled upon...

Iam writeing this story to seek help on understanding more about this disease. a year ago my healty, energetic,and still lovely mother was dignosed with alzheimers and dementia. it was very heartbreaking for myself and the family. unfortunently she is only 58years of age. i...

My mother died of Alzheimers on August 30th of this year. She died in my house surrounded by love and sadness by her family.I needed a moment after she passed and stepped out onto the patio. It was a cool day for August and I was surprised at how fast she left in the end and how...

Mom was first diagnosed December 2006. She came to live with me for about eighteen months.Prior to May 2008. she experienced a progressing stroke which was stopped by medication. Then, the following May, she went to the Emergency Room with chest pains. She had a pacemaker...

But she might. I am unsure what I should do. She's trying to walk around...I am trying to stay out of the nurse's way as they try ti get her to rest. Do I sit in the corner and cry? Cry alone in my room. I cannot hold it together. I will be crying all night either way. I don't...

My mother has been in a nursing home, with Alzheimer's, for eight years now. She herself made the decision to go, for which I am very grateful to have been spared. She is 88 now, and I am 61, and my husband is in his 70's. Here we are, seniors looking after...

Everything dies. we know for fact that nothing last. The most beautiful flower, eventually withers.
The strongest hurricane, dissolves .The biggest empires , have crumbled. Even the happiest soul, eventually is gone.
Her hair have grown gray and her juvenile spirit have decay...

Mom, I know you will never read this, and even if someone read it to you, you wouldn't understand.
Mom, you still look like the woman who loved me, who took care of our family, who was strong when things were tough....but you don't remember all of the things that I do.
You don...

go up quite a bit I have resorted to begging for money via GoFundMe. Lol
It't can't hurt...but I don't high hopes of it helping.
Long Term Care Insurence pays for home care or Assisted Living/Nursing Homes. If you are in the United States, you might want to look into it...

My grandmother passed away on Feb. 21st 2008, she took care of me when I was young. I miss her a lot, but at least she doesn't have to live with the disease anymore. she lived with it for nine years and during that time she lived through 2 strokes which left her bed-ridden/unable...

I've going this group and already I can feel a lump in my throat.
My Mum was diagnosed with alzhiemers back in 2006 and it's been a rollercoaster ever since. She and I never really had a mother / daughter relationship which has simultaneously made things easier and harder, she...

I lost my mom to Alzheimer's two years ago after caring for her at home for 7 years. She spent the last 4 months in assisted living and one morning, I got the call that she was not doing well. I spent two days in her room with Hospice helping take care of her. They started...

that this will be my last Thanksgiving with my mother.
She hasn't slept since Friday (she sleeps for about 30 minutes at a time and then is up for hours) and now she is sick with a fever and that makes the hallucinations worse. She is on medications for the illness. I just don...

A Son's Thanksgiving
By Donald Michael Schwartz, Nov. 22, 2007
My mother has advanced Alzheimer's
But there is thanksgiving and gratefulness,
Hidden within the sorrow.
I ink my thoughts,
On this 2007 day of thanks,
For the strength of my Mother's true spirit is rolling...

We went down to SF today (2 and a hours of rainy mountain roads each way) to see the my Mother-in-law today. She continues to slowly die, clinging to life for reasons I fail to understand.
I would not have recognized her if her name was not on the door to her room! She looks...

hip replacement on mom, I don't know what I'll do. There's only so much morphine you can give a person, and she is in pain and angry. Two straight weeks of constant pain...I don't blame her for being angry.
She is not a good candidate for anterior hip replacement surgery...but...

My mother and I used to be best friends! Several years ago I noticed a change! Years ago when I had my first child! She originally said she would have anything to do with him! Then she threatened me every day as if he was hers! We moved out she called all the time with excuses...

Things have been pretty wild for the last few weeks, andI thought I should come back and update some things. It amazes me that it was just this spring that things seemed calmer with mom.I've been her caregiver for years now. And over the years there have been many incidents...

in order to make it easier for my mother to get through her room/bathroom using a walker or a wheel chair. Today I am getting messages that she is furious and wants it put back...even trying to move it herself even though she is in so much pain she can barely walk. I understand...

Recently I spent on and off three weeks with my aged mother. Her Alzheimer’s disease has made her far worse in the six and a half months since our last visit. My greatest fears are becoming truths, my mother’s eyes now become vacant as if the switch in her addled brain...

that we have basically kept my mother in a "medicine induced coma" to keep her from being in pain. When I expressed my guilt, the Hospice nurse told me to, "quit beating yourself up". But, this isn't life...

Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1995. She's still living, but is very frail. She no longer knows any relatives and doesn't think of herself as a married woman, but rather as a little girl.
By the time she was diagnosed, her short term memory had already become...

Perhaps because I have never really felt guilty before. lol
On Sunday I started paying for 24/7 care at home for my mother. On Sunday, I was so exhausted, as soon as the caregiver showed up at 7:00 a.m. I went to bed until 2:00 p.m. After I woke up I just felt I needed to...

charming, intelligent, witty person I knew. She had spirit and fierce independence. I was not the best daughter and she was not the best at "mothering." Things were not so great at times. This disease started to take her 2 years ago. It affects 1 in 6 women and 1 in 11 men. The...

My mother contracted Alzheimer's Disease in her early 50's. They had just moved to Colorado. I stayed in VA because I just got engaged. By the time they got to CO, she was full blown gone. She had to be watched 24 hours a day because she would run away, get ahold of...

but is now bed bound. That makes her angry, so she gets doped up to calm her down. Her kidneys may be failing...will find out tomorrow. She sees (hallucinates) children and angels. I still cannot get a straight answer about how much time she has left. I guess it is merely her...

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I get home from shopping at several stores...I detest shopping. DETEST it! Only to find my mother in the family room pumped up on morphine and haldol. And I don't mean "medicine coma" pumped up...I mean, "Let's Do This!!!" pumped up.
Me, being the aweful person that I am...

while ago...for being an extremely drugged up woman in severe pain, she sure does move fast! Behold! The power of loads of narcotics! I bought her Mugu gai pan ( forgive me if I misspelled it, I do not eat it) and she is eating it...she has barely eaten in two weeks! Victory!